This is the current drive and reducer soon to be replaced with a closed loop vector drive.
Regards db
I am not familiar with the word "skiving". Can you elaborate? Petty impressive piece of machinery.
Paul
Sure, after a billet of PTFE is compression molded and heat treated they put the billet on the machine at about 225 deg. The feed axis consists of a knife blade four feet long.They feed the knife into the billet in inches per rev at about 8 rpm and the material comes off to a winder in a continous sheet. They then cut it into the desired dimensions of the finished product.Teflon tape is one example although tey skive to .250 thick
here is a picture of the material being skived, the teeth on the mandrel keeps it from spinning and is installed with a press.
Oh, ok. Almost like peeling veneer from a log to make plywood. Paul
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